As part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary, TransCultural Express
hosts two Russian authors, Masha Gessen and Keith Gessen, for
dinner, wine, and a discussion about their work. Audience members
are encouraged to ask questions and have their books signed at the
conclusion of the evening.

Keith Gessen is the editor-in-chief of n+1 and the
author of the novel All the Sad Young Literary Men. He has
written for Dissent, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and
The New York Review of Books, and his short stories have
been published in AGNI and the 2005 Best New American
Voices collection. In 2008, Gessen was named one of the
National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” for fiction. He lives in
Brooklyn.

Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books,
including Perfect Rigor, Blood Matters, and most recently,
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir
Putin. She has contributed to Vanity Fair, The New
Republic, and numerous other publications, and was recently
appointed director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Russian
service.

TransCultural Express: Russian and
American Arts Today is
proudly co-presented in partnership with the Mikhail Prokhorov
Fund

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author to BAM: The Complete Works. Lopate is a Guggenheim
Fellow and the director of the graduate nonfiction program at
Columbia University.